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Please note this product
is no longer for availableHIARCS for Pocket PC!
World's strongest and best featured
Pocket PC
chess program
Platform: Pocket PC, Windows Mobile™ 2003 or
later
Playing ability: Absolute beginner (750 Elo) to Strong Grandmaster (2800+ Elo)†
The world's strongest PDA chess program with the excellent CEBoard chess GUI.
HIARCS 13.1 is the highest rated PDA chess program in history with 2749 Elo on the
official SSDF rating list.
Suitable for all, from
beginner to strong Grandmaster with human-like play, and energy saving
handicap levels.
We are proud to present our latest
chess product offering the world's strongest chess engine on
Pocket PC devices. We have partnered with the excellent CEBoard Pocket
PC Chess GUI to provide the great combination of the strongest chess
engine together with superb user friendly features for chess players of
all strengths. A particular highlight of the new product is the enormous
range of special energy saving levels and move advise, highlighting
which means players from beginner to expert get the opponents and help
they need. CEBoard HIARCS now includes
the new premier HIARCS 13.1 chess engine
running natively on ARM based Pocket PC devices.
The HIARCS Pocket PC chess engine won the 2008
and 2009 Mescusor Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina ahead of Grandmasters scoring
an incredible undefeated
9½/10 in the process. This is a
performance of 2938 Elo which is the best ever chess performance rating of a
chess program on PDA in a Grandmaster tournament in history. It is not that
surprising since HIARCS has the second, third and forth best ever performances
as well! It also has many match wins over
Grandmasters over the past 6 years.
Prices*:
£24.95 / €29.95
/ $39.95
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Key features of the
Pocket Chess HIARCS 13.1 for CEBoard product :
| World's strongest Pocket PC chess program, true
super GM
strength in your hand! |
| Suitable
for all players from beginner to super Grandmaster (700 Elo - 2800 Elo!)† |
| Special Energy Saver Set Elo levels reduce
battery use and can be set to your strength |
| Coach to highlight square safety, move
quality and highlight mistakes |
| Fully configurable chess engine including
time controls, playing style and search |
| Top quality 2.4 million position opening book with latest theory for study and preparation |
| Named chess openings and Encyclopedia of
Chess Opening (ECO) codes |
| Unique graphical advise capability to
demonstrate and highlight move options & quality |
| Play, analysis and watching modes for battery
saving operations |
| Multiple lines of analysis and graphical &
algebraic book presentation |
| CEBoard GUI supports PGN databases
including variations, comments and searches! |
| CEBoard support high resolution, colour graphics with multiple boards
and piece styles |
| CEBoard and HIARCS now support MultiPV analysis |
Pocket Chess
HIARCS 13.1 is a software download only product.
Requires an ARM based Pocket PC running Pocket PC / Windows Mobile 2003 or
later.
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News, Press &
Customer Review/comments |
June 2012
HIARCS 13.1a engine update released
May 2010
HIARCS 13.1 released on PocketPC
September 2009
HIARCS 12.1 for PocketPC achieves highest
ever official chess rating for a PDA of 2749 Elo on SSDF rating list
August 2009
HIARCS wins 2009 Mercosur Cup in Buenos
Aires, Argentina ahead of grandmasters
December 2008
Pocket Chess HIARCS for CEBoard on Pocket
PC launched
August 2008
HIARCS wins 2008 Mercosur Cup in Buenos
Aires, Argentina ahead of grandmasters |
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Alain Zanchetta, author of CEBoard for his
excellent help and support in getting CEBoard and HIARCS to work so well together.
Thanks to Gary Preston for the excellent Elite chess pieces,
and Bryan Whitby for many of the other excellent piece sets used in CEBoard, Palm HIARCS
and HIARCS for iPhone Chess.
A thank you to all the HIARCS helpers who make the production
of HIARCS engines possible: Harvey Williamson, Eric Hallsworth, Enrico Carrisco, Christian Goralski
and Rob Osborne.
Thanks also to a number of other supporters who
prefer to remain incognito.
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